England lost 1—0 to a German free kick scored by Dietmar Hamann. Half-time neared, England were a goal down and a sizeable section of the crowd sullied the ever-dampening occasion.

The result prompted the immediate resignation of England manager Kevin Keegan , and by the time the return match was played at the Olympic Stadium in Munich on 1 September , England were now managed by their first ever foreign coach, Sven-Göran Eriksson.

Expectations on the English side were low, but they surprisingly won the game 5—1 with a hat-trick from striker Michael Owen , and eventually qualified for the World Cup as the winners of their group.

During the game the father of German coach Rudi Völler suffered a heart attack inside the stadium, but was successfully resuscitated. Some Germans were shocked by the scale of the defeat, with former striker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stating that "I have never seen such a terrible defeat This is a new Waterloo for us.

England only reached the quarter-finals. Both teams were defeated by the competition winners, Brazil. England and Germany next played on 22 August , in a friendly at the newly-rebuilt Wembley Stadium.

England surprisingly lost the match 2—1, their first defeat at the new Wembley, as Germany, following the unexpectedly successful World Cup, was still rebuilding the national team with a new generation and many unexperienced players.

Germany won the match 4—1, knocking England out and advancing into the quarter-finals. This was the greatest defeat England ever suffered in their World Cup history.

In the 38th minute, a shot by Frank Lampard controversially bounced off the crossbar well into the goal and back out again with Germany leading only 2—1.

However, neither the referee Jorge Larrionda nor the linesman saw it pass over the line. In Germany it was perceived as at least a slight revenge for the goal of , which is usually considered unjust in Germany.

The German women's league is considered one of the strongest in the world, until the end of the —14 season out of a possible 13 Champions League titles, German clubs have won eight.

By contrast, Arsenal are the only English side to have won the competition, doing so in The German women's team is more popular in Germany than the English women's team is in England.

Germany matches are televised on national television and attract millions of viewers. The World Cup quarterfinal between Germany and Japan attracted over 17 million viewers, [29] while England women's matches struggle to even make it into television schedules.

England's group games in the World Cup were watched by up to four million viewers on German television, but less than a million on BBC , which means even with no German involvement, England games are at this point more popular in Germany than in the country the England team actually represents.

England has not won a major title, their best result being Euro runners up in women's Euro and in Euro Meanwhile, Germany's women have won two World Cups, and , [31] and a total of eight European Championships in the years of , , , , , , and Together with the three Euro wins and the four World Cup wins of the men's team, Germany counts 17 major tournament titles, while England has one major tournament title so far.

Since World War II , Britain has considered itself a rival to Germany in many areas, such as automobile production , naval forces , trade and economy [35] —this rivalry has also permeated into football.

English football fans often deem Germany to be their traditional football rival and care more about this rivalry than those with other countries, such as Scotland or Argentina.

In the run-up to any football match against Germany, many English tabloids publish articles that contain references to the Second World War, such as calling their opposition derogatory terms such as " krauts " or " hun ".

England's defeat of Germany in the World Cup has been often voted by the English as their greatest ever sporting moment, [41] and the 5—1 victory in has also regularly placed highly.

As far back as the s, the footballing rivalry between England and Germany has been considered mainly an English phenomenon; this has been observed by several commentators of both English and German origin.

In June , British comedian Stephen Fry stated on the BBC show QI that, unlike the English, German football fans do not care about their team's loss at the World Cup final and may not even remember that they had made it that far.

Instead, German fans consider their rivalry with the Netherlands to be their traditional footballing rivalry and care more about the matches against them, such as the FIFA World Cup final.

Following their 5—1 loss in , many German fans were not particularly concerned, instead revelling in the Netherlands ' defeat by the Republic of Ireland the same day.

Some sang directly after the loss to England: In , during the lead-up to World Cup match, journalist Marina Hyde remarked in The Guardian that the rivalry between the England and Germany football teams was "quite obviously an illusion, existing only in the minds of those wishful to the point of insanity — which is to say, the English".

Beck described Germany's ambivalence to the rivalry, saying that "as far as the Germans are concerned, Sunday's game is nothing more than another sporting contest".

However, it would of course also be false to say that there is no rivalry at all between Germany and England; for one thing, the very fact that the English perceive it to be such cannot go unnoticed, for another, there is the long-standing quarrel about the " Wembley goal " only somewhat silenced since a clear goal was not awarded to the English in England matches, even friendlies, are always considered highly important sporting events though of course, the tradition and, usually, the quality of both the teams may account for most of that , going so far that a popular radioplay series mocks people in love as "looking deep into each other's eyes even if a Germany vs.

England match is on TV". Also, different flags were applied:. England played four Friendly matches against the East Germany national football team which was fielded by the DFV in the German Democratic Republic which existed from to As well as the rivalry between the national sides, English and German club teams have also met on numerous occasions in the various European club competitions.

Having recently missed out on the Bundesliga title to their rivals Borussia Dortmund , Bayern Munich suffered defeat at the Allianz Arena ; a game dubbed "Finale dahoam" Bavarian for "final at home" as it marked the second time that any team played the tournament's final at their home ground.

The game [51] ended as a 1—1 draw after added extra time aet before being decided 4—3 on penalties. Bayern Munich seemed like the more dominant of the two sides throughout, but a criticised [52] [53] Chelsea defence "parked the bus" , preventing many chances which eventually lead to their first Champions League win.

Perhaps the most noteworthy encounter was the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, during which the English club were trailing 1—0 until injury time, then scoring two goals to win 2—1.

This result was celebrated by many in England who were not United fans as being another English victory over Germany. Leeds would eventually eliminate a German team VfB Stuttgart in unexpected and bizarre circumstances.

After the Germans had qualified, in the first round of the —93 competition, on the away goals rule, the return leg was awarded by UEFA 3—0 to Leeds United because Stuttgart fielded an extra foreigner, thus infringing the European competition rules that were in place at the time.

A replay was ordered as the aggregate stood at 3—3. Leeds won the replay at Barcelona 's Camp Nou 2—1. In , a young and depleted Leeds United side, managed by David O'Leary , eliminated Munich from the Champions League beating them home and away in the preliminary round before reaching the semi-final.

These were against the likes of Borussia Mönchengladbach , 1. Liverpool's win against Borussia Mönchengladbach in Rome stands out for one special reason.

It started a sequence of six consecutive English European Cup victories each time involving the elimination of a German club in the latter stages. The English hold the upper hand in club football encounters, although there were notable German wins such as Bayern's revenge over Manchester United F.

Both English sides exacted revenge over Leverkusen in subsequent Champions League encounters. Borussia Dortmund beat Manchester United 1—0 both home and away in the semifinal of the —97 UEFA Champions League which they won, United having been guilty of squandering numerous chances in both legs, especially the return leg at Old Trafford.

English club victories were often celebrated in a manner which evoked memories of the War. The outspoken Brian Clough is on record boasting that he never lost to a German side and that he took satisfaction from this for what the Germans had done to his father during the war.

Clough memorably led Nottingham Forest to a 1—0 win in Cologne following a spectacular 3—3 draw at the City Ground in the semifinal en route to Forest winning their first European Cup.

The following year, a Forest side minus star player, Trevor Francis , defeated Hamburg in the final by employing an Italian style catenaccio based on dogged defence and brilliant goalkeeping by Peter Shilton.

Liverpool have a tremendous record against German opposition, from both sides of the East-West divide, and once famously hit Munich 8—0 in an old Fairs Cup game, a treatment meted out to Hamburg 6—0 when winning the first of their three European Super Cups, the second also against German opposition in the form of FC Bayern Munich.

Liverpool's encounters with Bayern and Borussia Mönchengladbach known in Germany as the Gladbacher , the latter a force to be reckoned with in the 70s, are memorable.

Bayern had hit Coventry City for six in a previous round. Liverpool won the first leg 3—0 with an Alun Evans hat-trick and drew 1—1 in Munich.

The most important encounter between the two sides was in the European Cup semi-final of when a depleted Liverpool were held to a goalless draw at Anfield and then drew 1—1 in Munich.

They scored in the 83rd minute with a Ray Kennedy goal at the Olympia Stadion in Munich before Karl-Heinz Rummenigge equalised in the 88th minute to preserve Bayern's then unbeaten home record against English opposition, even though Liverpool went through to win their third European Cup final.

The great Günter Netzer , now a pundit on German television, and midfield forager, Herbert Wimmer , played for Mönchengladbach in the encounters with Everton and the Cup final against Liverpool, then managed by Bill Shankly.

Borussia would eliminate an English club in en route to winning the UEFA Cup for the second time in their history.

The English club was Manchester City whose manager, Malcolm Allison , had taken over a few months earlier from Tony Book and dismantled what seemed, in the earlier rounds, to be a star-studded side, to blood young wannabes.

There were memorable encounters in the other European competitions. The UEFA Cup, which became a strong competition in the late seventies, eighties and 90s, before being devalued in recent years, threw up some wonderful Anglo-German encounters, among the most memorable of which would be Ipswich Town 's victories both home and away over 1.

FC Köln in the semifinal of the competition which they won, Tottenham Hotspur 's 5—1 aggregate mauling of Cologne in the competition and defeat of Bayern ten years later when winning the competition for the second time, debutant Watford 's comeback against Kaiserslautern in the first round of the —84 competition, Bayern's thrashing of Nottingham Forest F.

Nottingham Forest 7—2 on aggregate — after Forest had held Bayern to a 1—1 draw in the first leg in Munich — in en route to winning the cup, debutant Norwich City 's win at the Olympia Stadion in Munich before ousting Bayern at Carrow Road in and Kaiserlautern's final minutes turn around against Tottenham Hotspur, managed by George Graham , in More recently, in Hamburg eliminated Manchester City who had earlier in the campaign beaten Schalke in Germany, a team they also beat 5—1 in the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup which City went on to win.

The English hold the upper hand even in these competitions. There were however some narrow escapes. The Reds hung on in the second half.

In , Queens Park Rangers , also making their debut, with Stan Bowles , Dave Thomas and Don Givens in their ranks, took a 3—0 lead to the Mungersdorfer Stadion in Cologne and increased their lead there only for the Germans to storm back with four goals and miss out on qualification on the away goals rule.

There were also many encounters between English league sides and clubs from the DDR which mostly ended in favour of the English sides, although these confrontations were less spectacular than those involving clubs from West Germany.

Newport County , then from the English third division but representing Wales in the European Cup Winners' Cup in , went tantalisingly close to eliminating Carl Zeiss Jena after a 2—2 draw in East Germany but lost 0—1 in the home leg after a blinding display by the East German keeper Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin.

Jena made it to the final where they lost to Dynamo Tbilisi of Georgia , then part of the Soviet Union. Liverpool had three confrontations with Dynamo Dresden which they all won, including a splendid 5—1 performance at Anfield in the second round of the European Cup competition.

Forest, the European Cup holders, had a mountain to climb to hold on to the trophy, having lost the first leg at the City Ground 0—1 to a goal by Hans-Jürgen Riediger.

They managed to register another victory 1—0 on English soil in the return leg only to be ousted on the away goal rule by Villa who went on to keep the European Cup in England for a sixth consecutive year, beating FC Bayern Munich in the Rotterdam final.

Forest cast-away, Peter Withe , scored the only goal of the game against the run of play. For most of the second half, Bayern were camped inside the Villa half, hit the woodwork, went tantaisingly close on a number of occasions but found substitute rookie goalkeeper, Nigel Spink who replaced veteran Jimmy Rimmer after only a few minutes , in inspiring form.

The rivalry between the two nations has not prevented their respective nationals from playing in each other's domestic leagues, in certain cases to high renown.

Klinsmann was voted the same accolade in while playing for Tottenham, where he pioneered the ' diving ' goal celebration. Owen Hargreaves played for Bayern Munich for seven seasons before transferring to Manchester United in Keegan was twice European Footballer of the Year and a European Cup finalist during his time at Hamburg, where the German public nicknamed him "Mighty Mouse", after a cartoon hero, because of his prolific scoring, his height or lack thereof , his high level of mobility, and his ability to turn sharply and often while running at high speed.

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